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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCD22

1978-05-11 KEOKUK, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N44NC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL 690B

Year of manufacture

1977 · 1 years old at event

Engine

AIRESEARCH TPE331-5&6SER (776 hp)

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19770405

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54973

Registrant of record

PONDEROSA AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N44NC Cessna 402B None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 402B · N44NC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

KEOKUK MUNI

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000402B0852

Total time

2,251 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,870

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/40 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0824. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0824.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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